The decision was made to begin phasing out clips by supporting saving the current selection to a file.   This requires the load previews to support EDLs, after a comprehensive test of all the frame sizes in the EDL, nested EDLs, & memory intensive effects like time average.  It might have to exclude all effects & be limited to just bare cuts with single files.

The 1 super power with clips was the ability to play them in the viewer without pasting them on the timeline.  The loader is pretty stacked & there's a desire to not have to reconfigure it to go between loading a file in the viewer & loading a file in the project.  

 

It almost needs a separate load dialog for the viewer to truly replace clips.  It also needs a list of most recent files.  The viewer & compositor are almost at the point of requiring menu bars for the number of options they have.  That definitely would take a lot more space.  For now, the viewer can live without the most recent files.  The viewer is going to end up supporting playback of assets in the current project & arbitrary files from disk while dropping the historic clip support.

 

For now, the saving of selections has to be in addition to the existing clip support. The save interface is based on a common dialog for save, save as, save before quit.  It needs a 4th entry point for saving clips & that means a significant refactoring.

The save routines seem to be the oldest bits of code, dating back to 1997.  Lions don't do it that way anymore but certainly remember the feeling of bringing up those functions for the 1st time.

 

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Was shocked to find I bonds paying 5.27% in a time when the gubment was reporting about the lowest inflation they'll accept & the media was telling everyone to sell their I bonds.  They raised the fixed rate to 1.3% & double inflation was 4%.

 The real win with I bonds is they're not taxed until they're redeemed & then they're only taxed at the federal level.  The redemption date could be in a lower tax bracket.  Lions are getting slaughtered so bad by the annual taxes on money market funds at 5%, I bonds at 5% are a no brainer.

 Lions expect the gubment to seek higher inflation in the next year while cutting the fixed rate to get itself out of debt.  That, with the tax benefit sealed another I bond deal.  

 

 

 

 

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